Month: October 2008
With all the bruhaha over this week’s activities, its easy to overlook saturday’s signing event. Award winning author Penny Weigand, creator of “The Comeback Kids: The Martinez Beavers” is coming into to encourage readers to buy the book. Remember that 100% of profit from these books goes to Worth A Dam, which will use the money to keep our beavers safe. The child artists featured in the book, Mikayla and Bryanna will be there signing copies as well. The signing will be from 1-4 at Sheila Grilli’s bookstore at 610 Ferry street in downtown Martinez.
Stop by, shake hands and get your questions answered. It promises to be a dam good time
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Emily Dickinson came to mind yesterday, but today she would need a little bit of a rewrite. Be assured that Worth A Dam will be planning how to keep our beavers safe, regardless of the city’s ruthless decision. Whether that means having witnesses on sight, or making sure the media is informed of dangerous activity, we’ll do what can be done.
Do you know what ruthless means by the way? It is based on the old english reutheles meaning without pity or compassion. Apt – this decision certain lacks any reuth at all.
I thought beaver supporters would be heartened to hear a little of the responses we’ve been getting.
So sorry. The magnitude of the planned work must extend far beyond the lodge. Why, if this has been needed for a year, is it being rushed through just before rainy season?
Sharon Brown Beavers Wetlands & Wildlife http://www.BeaversWW.org
I’m stunned, and heartbroken for everyone involved. I don’t know what to say other than I am so sorry. Are they going to trap?! If they don’t trap all is not lost. The beavers will likely respond to the lodge destruction by building a new lodge. Hopefully in the same viewing area. Please keep me posted. Mike Callahan Beaver Solutions
Why don’t they just relocate the beaver in the spring? Surely they can live with them until then. Please let me know what happens. For the sake of the beaver, they need to be relocated. The people who have the control don’t care about them and THEY have the last word. I’m very sorry Heidi, Always, Sherri Tippie: Wildlife 2000
Sorry about last night. Gary Bogue Wildlife Columnist
After having delayed, for MONTHS, a vote on the subcommitte recommendations – and then deeming an “emergency” need to drill into the lodge, based on report findings of deterioration that allegedly first were revealed in JUNE – this does not make the Maritnez City Council look particularly effective, in my opinion. I for one will be voting for change in upcoming elections. Sue Mayo Martinez worker – Superior Court
Your plan for the emergency bank stabilization that will, ultimately, remove the beavers is cruel and unnecessary. We should consider ourselves incredibly lucky that wild beavers chose to live among us, but instead, we repay them by destroying their environment. We am not experts in any sense of the word on this issue, but we understand there are alternatives that could have ensured the safety of the beavers. You have caved in to the threat of potential litigation instead of doing the right thing. Shame on you. We are voters in Martinez, and we’re not afraid to use our vote. Rozann Grunig & George Grunig
I was thinking further about the work being described at the council meeting. They said they’d install the sheet piles first, then fill in the holes with grout to stabilize the soil. That sounds backwards to me if you really wanted to protect the beavers. If you knew where the holes were located, should you first try to bore down into them to scare any beavers and have them leave the holes, and THEN once they’re out, you can start installing the sheet piles? Resident GH
This is the moment of lead. Remembered, if outlived, as freezing person recollect the snow. First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.
This is a moment for hope.
Elusive yet enduring.
Spinning sadness grimly set and dizzy.
First shock, then focus, then the getting busy.
If you haven’t taken a look at this lovely reminder of how we got here, check it out.
Earl Dunivan, Jr., a member of the family threatening to sue the city because the beavers were destroying a retaining wall between their property and the creek, snickered when Vice Mayor Mark Ross said he would give the project the go-ahead only if a pledge was added to the formal resolution. He wanted the City to declare in writing that this City Council is committed to keeping the beavers in Martinez and ensuring their survival and health in Alhambra Creek.
Linda Meza
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